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by ozfive 1068 days ago
It was made clear on the W4 page that: "Additionally, W4 Games pledges to support Godot financially with no-strings-attached donations to the project."

If W4 Games has received 8 million dollars in funding but hasn't contributed any of it back to the Godot project as stated in their pledge, then there would be an inconsistency between their promise and their actions.

The text on the W4 page explicitly mentions their commitment to donating improvements made to Godot back to the community AND supporting the project financially. If they have not fulfilled these promises despite having significant funding, it would raise concerns about their integrity and whether they are truly dedicated to their stated mission.

Let's see the transparency of donations to the Godot foundation?
2 comments
mort96 1068 days ago
W4 got funding from venture capitalists. I'm certain that nobody who invested thought they were making a charitable donation to fund Godot development. It's not like the $8 million are just badly funds from donations.

And I'm sure those investors would be very, very angry at W4 if W4 just ran away with the money which was invested to fund development of products and services to give W4 a revenue stream, donated it to the Godot Foundation instead. In fact, I'm betting that would be quite illegal (and if it's not, the investors would certainly fire the CEO if that happened!).

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ozfive 1067 days ago
It wasn't fair to claim that some of the $8 million should go to Godot. What I should have said was don't make claims on your site and to people supporting and using Godot or any other open source community that aren't true.

This person just wants some compensation for covering the forums for Godot which sounds reasonable to me. The way it was worded wasn't clear but the underlying intention was clear.

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mort96 1067 days ago
What claims have been made which aren't true?

I think it's completely reasonable for this person to not want to host the forums out of pocket for no compensation any more. If that was all this post was about, I don't think anyone would have any problems with it. It's all the stuff about Godot being a scam and complaints about how W4's seed funding from VCs isn't being donated to the Godot Foundation that's absolutely baffling.

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unintendedcons 1068 days ago
Yikes, looks like NO transparency about Foundation financials!

I was expecting OpenCollective, not PayPal!

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